[EDIT] I believe i left out my original problem. To me it seems like the issue resides in passing the content of the decoded MIMEEntity to a stream, which i'd like to write out to a file. No matter how i attempt it, i can not get lotus script to write the binary data to the file. If anyone has any helpful opinion/suggestion/etc.., I'd be more then grateful!
[ORIGINAL]
I have the following code
Dim a As String
a = "TVqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" & _
"AAAAgAAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4gRE9TIG1v" & _
...
...
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim stream As NotesStream
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim body As NotesMimeEntity
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Set session = New NotesSession
'Create stream and display properties
Set stream = session.CreateStream
'check if the file exists
If Not stream.Open("C:\\Notes\\update.dll") Then
'if the file doesnot exist then create one and add a time stamp to it
Dim fileNum As Integer
fileNum% = Freefile()
Open "/ww414/notes/ebcdicfile.txt" For Output As fileNum%
Close fileNum%
'this should have created the file. see if it existis now
If Not stream.Open("C:\\Notes\\update.dll") Then
'if the file has not been created yet then let the user know of the error that blocks the operation
Messagebox("Log file Is inaccessible")
End If
End If
Dim b As NotesStream
Set b = session.CreateStream
Call b.WriteText(a)
'==========================================================
'update file with the b64 decoded content
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set doc = db.CreateDocument
session.ConvertMime = False
Set body = doc.CreateMIMEEntity
Call body.SetContentFromText(b, "", ENC_BASE64)
Call body.DecodeContent
content = body.ContentAsText
Call stream.WriteText(content)
'close stream/file open in memory
Call stream.Close()
The problem is, the file gets created, but when it comes to the content, it simply puts a few bytes in it (instead of the 14kb of actual file data)
I have checked a bunch of forums and possible solutions, but none of them seem to work.
For instance:
https://www.nsftools.com/tips/Base64v14.lss
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/e5f5333619f2996885256a220009508f/a8bb2c21c99f9c4d852571ee005cede9?OpenDocument
https://ghads.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/vbscript-readwrite-binary-encodedecode-base64/
So, the solution was even simpler as i thought.
This was a huge help, as the root cause of my issue seemed to be the writing out the binary content to the disk. And that was due to creating the file the wrong way! While the file got created it couldn't output the content properly (for some "Lotus reasons"..)
Either way, taking a coffee break and starting everything from zero helped a lot! The code that worked (for future ref. if someone would need to get such a thing working):
Sub Initialize
Dim a As String
a ="BASE64 ENCODED STRING(In my case it was a DLL)"
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim stream As NotesStream
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim body As NotesMimeEntity
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Set session = New NotesSession
Set stream = session.CreateStream
Dim b As NotesStream
Set b = session.CreateStream
Call b.WriteText(a, EOL_NONE)
Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
Set doc = db.CreateDocument
session.ConvertMime = False
Set mime = doc.CreateMIMEEntity
Call mime.SetContentFromText(b, "application/octet-stream", ENC_BASE64)
Call mime.DecodeContent
If Not(mime Is Nothing) Then
Set stream = session.CreateStream
pathname$ = "c:\temp\test.dll"
If Not stream.Open(pathname$, "binary") Then
Messagebox pathname$,, "Open failed"
Goto ExitSub
End If
Call mime.GetContentAsBytes(stream)
Call stream.Close
Else
Messagebox "Not MIME",, doc.GetItemValue("Subject")(0)
End If
ExitSub:
session.ConvertMIME = True ' Restore conversion
End Sub
I have following code in an lotusscript agent that removes attachments from NotesDocuments. But NotesDocument.save() causes loss of rich text formatting (font, color). Is there any way to retain the formatting?
Sub removeAttachments_v2(doc As NotesDocument)
Dim session As NotesSession
Dim rtitem As Variant
Dim filename As String
Dim ans As Variant
Set session = New NotesSession
Dim richstyle As NotesRichTextStyle
Set richstyle = session.CreateRichTextStyle
richstyle.NotesColor = COLOR_BLUE
If doc.HasEmbedded Then
Set rtitem = doc.getfirstitem("Body")
If (rtitem.type = RICHTEXT) Then
ForAll object In rtitem.EmbeddedObjects
If (object.Type = EMBED_ATTACHMENT) Then
filename = object.source
Call object.remove
Call rtitem.AddNewLine( 2 )
Call rtitem.AppendStyle(richstyle)
Call rtitem.AppendText( "Attachemnt removed: " & filename )
Call doc.Save( True, True , True )
End If
End ForAll
End If
End If
End sub
Edit1: Initialize function
Sub Initialize
Dim db As New NotesDatabase("","")
Dim col As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Call db.Open("", "C:\this\is\db\dir\test.nsf")
Set col = db.Alldocuments
Set doc = col.Getfirstdocument()
While Not ( doc Is Nothing )
Call RemoveAttachments_v2(doc)
Call doc.Save(False, False, False)
Set doc = col.GetNextDocument( doc )
Wend
End Sub
Despite of the fact, that you save the document for every attachment I cannot find any reason, why this should happen. I just copied your code in an agent, and it removes the attachments as desired and appends the text in blue...
No formatting is lost...
The error has to be somewhere else in your code, probably in the calling function.
OLD ANSWER (wrong due to own tests, just kept here as history):
The Problem here most probably is: you defined rtitem as Variant. And
getfirstitem gets you a NotesItem instead of a NotesRichtextItem, so
when saving, it is converted to a "plain Text" item.
Most probably you used Variant instead of NotesRichtextItem, because
there are Mime- mails where defining the variable as NotesRichtextItem
will cause an "Type Missmatch" or similar error. As long as you do not
write anything back this is OK.
As Mime Mails need complete different handling to achieve your goal,
you should first fix the code for pure NotesRichtextItems by using the
right type, and then write another code- branch for handling Mime-
items
I am trying to send a file up to a server using VB.net. I have found many examples exclaiming it to be simple to do but none of the examples I have found have worked.
The current one I am trying is in the following code:
Dim WithEvents wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
Private Sub oWord_DocumentBeforeClose(ByVal Doc As Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Document, ByRef Cancel As Boolean) Handles oWord.DocumentBeforeClose
Try
Using wc As New System.Net.WebClient()
wc.Credentials = New NetworkCredential("ehavermale", "ernie1")
wc.UploadFile("http://192.168.95.1:83/GraphTest.txt", "C:\Users\EHovermale\Desktop\GraphTest.txt")
End Using
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox("Error:" + ex.Message)
End Try
'System.IO.File.Delete("C:\Users\EHovermale\Desktop\GraphTest.txt")
MsgBox("See Ya")
End Sub
When I run this program I get the Error: An Exception has occurred during a WebClient Request.
I have access to read/write files to the server I am trying to hit.
Is there another way to upload files or is something wrong with my code for this way?
Thank you!
Since there is no HTTP service to handle the file upload, you could save the file directly using VBA's Scripting.FileSystemObject. This will work if you can access the network share from wherever your document is located. Remember that if the document is moved to another computer then this may not work.
Public Sub MoveFile()
Dim fso As Object
Dim sourceFile As String
Dim targetFile As String
' You must add reference to "Microsoft Scripting Runtime" to your document
' Tools > References... > scroll down the item.
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
sourceFile = "C:\Users\davidr\Desktop\foo.txt"
targetFile = "\\192.168.95.1:83\foo.txt"
' Test if destination file already exists
If fso.FileExists(targetFile) Then
MsgBox ("This file exists!")
Exit Sub
End If
' Move the file
fso.CopyFile sourceFile, targetFile
Set fso = Nothing
End Sub
I want to store a unicode string in a flat file on a windows box from an excel/vba macro. The macro converts normal string to unicode representation, need to store it in a file and retrieve later.
As mentioned, you can use the Microsoft Scripting Runtime (scrrun.dll). I have posted some examples below. Some people also like the native file IO features. There is an extensive (and fairly comprehensive thread) thread here: http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=123814
However for Unicode files it's probably the least painful to use Textstreams:)
Public Sub StringToTextFile(ByVal path As String, ByVal value As String)
'Requires reference to scrrun.dll
Dim fso As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim ts As Scripting.TextStream
Set fso = New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set ts = fso.CreateTextFile(path, False, True)
ts.Write value
ts.Close
End Sub
Public Sub LazyMansWay(ByVal path As String, ByVal value As String)
'Reference counting will cause the objects to be destroyed. The termination
'events of the classes will cause the connections to be closed.
CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").CreateTextFile(path, False, True).Write value
End Sub
Add a reference to "Microsoft Scripting Runtime" COM component (scrrun.dll).
It has all the classes (specifically FileSystemObject/TextStream) to create/read/write files.
The best solution I could figure is read the string in to a byte array and write each byte to a binary file
Private Function WriteBinaryFile(ByRef szData As String)
Dim bytData() As Byte
Dim lCount As Long
bytData = szData
Open PwdFileName For Binary As #1
For lCount = LBound(bytData) To UBound(bytData)
Put #1, , bytData(lCount)
Next lCount
Close #1
End Function
Read it back by opening the file in binary mode and reading each byte into a byte array and then converting it to a string.
Sub ReadBinaryFile(ByRef gszData As String)
Dim aryBytes() As Byte
Dim bytInput As Byte
Dim intFileNumber
Dim intFilePos
intFileNumber = FreeFile
Open PwdFileName For Binary As #intFileNumber
intFilePos = 1
Do
Get #intFileNumber, intFilePos, bytInput
If EOF(intFileNumber) = True Then Exit Do
ReDim Preserve aryBytes(intFilePos - 1)
aryBytes(UBound(aryBytes)) = bytInput
intFilePos = intFilePos + 1
Loop While EOF(intFileNumber) = False
Close #intFileNumber
gszData = aryBytes
End Sub
Wrote a small app that accesses a bunch of search websites and puts the results in a word document, which gets run a few hundred times a day.
It saves individual search results in a number of local folders so the next time those words are searched, it grabs them locally instead of loading the website again.
This works fine - even though it's not quick. People are impressed because until a few weeks ago they did this manually by literally loading up six different search websites, searching, and then copying and pasting the results in a word document.
However, our Office's internet is unreliable, and has been down the last half a day. This has meant about 400 bad searches have been saved in the local folders, and inserted into the final documents.
When a person was searching they could tell if the internet was broken and they would do their searches later. Obviously, though, this app can't tell, and because I'm not using APIs or anything, and because I am limited to using the VBA environment (I'm not even allowed MZ tools), I need to find some way to check that the internet is working before continuing with the program flow, without relying on too many references, and preferably without screenscraping for the phrase "404 Page Not Found".
I'm not very familiar with VB, and VBA is ruining me in so many ways, so there's probably some easy way to do this, which is why I'm asking here.
Appreciate any help.
Obviously, your problem has many levels. You should start by defining "connected to the internet", and go on with developing fallback strategies that include not writing invalid files on failure.
As for the "am I connected" question, you can try tapping into the Win32 API:
Private Declare Function InternetGetConnectedState Lib "wininet.dll" _
(ByRef dwflags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long ) As Long
Public Function GetInternetConnectedState() As Boolean
GetInternetConnectedState = InternetGetConnectedState(0&,0&)
End Function
Though depending on your network setup (proxy/NAT/firewall restrictions etc.), Windows might have a different opinion about this than you.
Trying to GET the pages you are interested in, checking on the return status in the HTTP headers (gateway timeout, 404, whatever you expect to happen when it "doen't work) might also be a way to go.
You could use MSXML library & use XMLHttpRequest class to check for things
e.g.
On Error Resume Next
Dim request As MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
request.Open "http://www.google.com"
request.Send
Msgbox request.Status
The status will give you HTTP Status code of what happened to the request.
You might have to do some more checks, depending on your scenario.
Hope that helps.
Use the following code to check for internet connection
first anable XML v6.0 in your references
Function checkInternetConnection() As Integer
'code to check for internet connection
'by Daniel Isoje
On Error Resume Next
checkInternetConnection = False
Dim objSvrHTTP As ServerXMLHTTP
Dim varProjectID, varCatID, strT As String
Set objSvrHTTP = New ServerXMLHTTP
objSvrHTTP.Open "GET", "http://www.google.com"
objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/xml"
objSvrHTTP.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/xml"
objSvrHTTP.Send strT
If err = 0 Then
checkInternetConnection = True
Else
MsgBox "Internet connection not estableshed: " & err.Description & "", 64, "Additt !"
End If
End Function
Unfortunately, this is a bit of a difficult question to answer for a couple of reasons:
How do you define a non-working internet connection? Do you check for a valid IP address? Do you ping out? How do you know that you have permissions to check these things? How do you know that the computer's firewall/antivirus isn't causing wonky behavior?
Once you've established that the connection is working, what do you do if the connection drops mid-operation?
There are probably ways to do what you want to do, but a lot of "devil's in the details" type things tend to pop up. Do you have any way to check that the saved search is valid? If so, that would probably be the best way to do this.
Building on shakalpesh's answer and the comments to it, there are (at least) two ways to get the web page into Word without parsing the XML returned by the XMLHTTP60 object.
(NB the HTTP status code of 200 indicates that "the request has succeeded" - see here)
write the XMLHTTP60.ResponseText out to a text file and then call Documents.Open on that text file
If (xhr.Status = 200) Then
hOutFile = FreeFile
Open "C:\foo.html" For Output As #hOutFile
Print #hOutFile, xhr.responseText
Close #hOutFile
End If
// ...
Documents.Open "C:\foo.html"
This has the disadvantage that some linked elements may be lost and you'll get a message box when the file opens
check the URL status with the XMLHTTP60 object and then use Documents.Open to open the URL as before:
If (xhr.Status = 200) Then
Documents.Open "http://foo.bar.com/index.html"
End If
There is a slight chance that the XMLHTTP60 request could succeed and the Documents.Open one fail (or vice versa). Hopefully this should be a fairly uncommon event though
I found most answers here and elsewhere confusing or incomplete, so here is how to do it for idiots like me:
'paste this code in at the top of your module (it will not work elsewhere)
Private Declare Function InternetGetConnectedState Lib "wininet.dll" (ByRef dwflags As Long, ByVal dwReserved As Long) As Long
Private Const INTERNET_CONNECTION_MODEM As Long = &H1
Private Const INTERNET_CONNECTION_LAN As Long = &H2
Private Const INTERNET_CONNECTION_PROXY As Long = &H4
Private Const INTERNET_CONNECTION_OFFLINE As Long = &H20
'paste this code in anywhere
Function IsInternetConnected() As Boolean
Dim L As Long
Dim R As Long
R = InternetGetConnectedState(L, 0&)
If R = 0 Then
IsInternetConnected = False
Else
If R <= 4 Then IsInternetConnected = True Else IsInternetConnected = False
End If
End Function
'your main function/calling function would look something like this
Private Sub btnInternetFunction_Click()
If IsInternetConnected() = True Then
MsgBox ("You are connected to the Internet")
'code to execute Internet-required function here
Else
MsgBox ("You are not connected to the Internet or there is an issue with your Internet connection.")
End If
End Sub
This is what I use. I prefer it because it doesn't require any external references or DLLs.
Public Function IsConnected()
Dim objFS As Object
Dim objShell As Object
Dim objTempFile As Object
Dim strLine As String
Dim strFileName As String
Dim strHostAddress As String
Dim strTempFolder As String
strTempFolder = "C:\PingTemp"
strHostAddress = "8.8.8.8"
IsConnected = True ' Assume success
Set objFS = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
If Dir(strTempFolder, vbDirectory) = "" Then
MkDir strTempFolder
End If
strFileName = strTempFolder & "\" & objFS.GetTempName
If Dir(strFileName) <> "" Then
objFS.DeleteFile (strFileName)
End If
objShell.Run "cmd /c ping " & strHostAddress & " -n 1 -w 1 > " & strFileName, 0, True
Set objTempFile = objFS.OpenTextFile(strFileName, 1)
Do While objTempFile.AtEndOfStream <> True
strLine = objTempFile.Readline
If InStr(1, UCase(strLine), "REQUEST TIMED OUT.") > 0 Or InStr(1, UCase(strLine), "COULD NOT FIND HOST") > 0 Then
IsConnected = False
End If
Loop
objTempFile.Close
objFS.DeleteFile (strFileName)
objFS.DeleteFolder (strTempFolder)
' Remove this after testing. Function will return True or False
MsgBox IsConnected
End Function
I encourted this same problem and after googling a lot, I realized there was a simpler way to do it... It requires the user to enable the Microsoft Internet Explorer Controlers library, but that is all. The idea is that your code navigates to a website (in this case google), and after getting the webpage document (HTML). puts a value in the search box.
Sub Test1()
On Error GoTo no_internet 'Error handler when no internet
Dim IE As New SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
IE.Visible = False 'Not to show the browser when it runs
IE.navigate "www.google.com" 'navigates to google
Do While IE.ReadyState <> READYSTATE_COMPLETE 'loops until it is ready
Loop
'Here It gets the element "q" from the form "f" of the HTML document of the webpage, which is the search box in google.com
'If there is connection, it will run, quit and then go to the msgbox.
'If there is no connection, there will be an error and it will go to the error handler "no_internet" that is declared on top of the code
IE.document.forms("f").elements("q").Value = "test"
IE.Quit
MsgBox "Internet Connection: YES"
Exit Sub
no_internet:
IE.Quit
MsgBox "Internet Connection: NO" ' and here it will know that there is no connection.
End Sub